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The conviction last week of hedge fund billionaire, Raj Rajaratnam, hasn't kept the stench of corruption on Wall Street from wafting all the way down to Washington. …

President Barack Obama in the Blue Room of the White House standing with, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and General …

California State Capitol, Sacramento. (Photo: Willem van Bergen) California is the eighth largest economy in the world, and it has a debt burden to match. The state …

President Obama on April 13 gave another of his now notorious “maybe this/maybe that” speeches. Raise taxes on the rich, he said. But in the same breath announced, "everything's …

At age 77, George Mitchell's resignation as President Barack Obama's envoy on Arab-Israeli affairs may have indeed been for personal reasons, as he claimed. More likely, however, it came …

There was both good news and bad news in the Social Security trustees' report released last week. The bad news is that the program is projected to cost somewhat …

Members of a Navy SEAL team participate in infiltration and exfiltration training at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, in 2009. (LCPL Ryan Rholes / US Marines via The New York …

At a 11 May 2011 hearing held by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, a short debate over healthcare delivery took …

Protesters at Madison, Wisconsin, March 12th, 2011. (Photo: ra_hurd) A Brief History of the Battle for Wisconsin The whole aim of practical politics is to …

Demonstrators participate in the funeral services of Issa al Radhi, 47, who was killed during protests last week, in the village of Sitra , Bahrain, March 20, 2011. The …